Objective
Understanding how proteins adsorb to inorganic surfaces is important in many biotechnological applications, including the design of medical implants, fabrication of antibacterial surfaces and biomeneralization. Many studies have been carried out in order to examine how proteins interact with inorganic entities or surfaces; still, it is not clear how proteins “sense” the inorganic surface. The aim of the proposed research is get insights into the fundamental rules that govern protein adsorption.
The approach will combine the use of two powerful tools: atomic force spectroscopy and self-assembled monolayers. It will undertake a reductionist methodology and study the adsorption of individual amino acids to chemically well-defined surfaces, functionalized with self-assembled monolayers, using single-molecule spectroscopy.
The experimental approach that will be developed, in the course of the project, will be useful as a tool for other researches in the field. Additionally, findings from this research will allow the design of antibacterial surfaces, new biomaterials and peptides that interact with inorganic surfaces or particles in a controlled manner to form composite materials.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry amines
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology implants
- natural sciences physical sciences optics spectroscopy
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FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
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Coordinator
91904 JERUSALEM
Israel
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